Cab-runner.



. No. 811.453. PATENTBD JAN. 30, 1906.

J. W. SORENSiON.

GAB RUNNER.

APPLIUATION FILED rme. 1905.

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CAB-"RUNNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Jan. so, 1906.

Application filed February 6, 1905. Serial No. 244,470.

To all whom it. may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. SoRENsoN, residing at Grayling, in the county of Crawford and State of Michigan, have invented a new and. Impro ved Cab-Runner, of which the following is a, specification.

This invention relates to that type of runners especially designed for being detachably connected with a carriage or wagon body or go-carts, and it seeks to provide a runner of the character stated of a simple and economical nature in which the parts are so arranged that they can be readily adjusted to suit the vertical and longitudinal positions of the front or rear axles.

My invention consists in the peculiar arrangement and cooperative combination of parts, all of which will be hereinafter fully de scribed, specifically pointed out in the appended claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a topbuggy with my construction of runner applied. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of my improved. runners, showing the preferred construction thereof and the adjustment of the axle-spindle boxes in dotted lines. Fi 3 is a detail perspective view of the runner s own in Fig. 2 with the axle-spindle-holding boxes shown detached from the runner ends. Fig. 4 is a view of a modification of my runner hereinafter described. Fig. 4* is a view of a further modification hereinafter referred to.

My invention in its preferred. form is particularly designed. to readily provide for adjusting the spindle-boxes carried by the runners longitudinally and vertically with respect to each other, whereby to adapt the said runners for use in differently-arranged front and rear axles, and also to provide a simple construction of axle-boxes and runner ends whereby the said boxes can be interchangeably fitted upon either end of the runner, and thus reduce the cost of production of my runner to the minimum and the application to or removal of the same from a wagon or carriage body easy.

As shown in Figs. 1 to 4, the runner .is formed of a stout round bar a of steel, the rear end of which is curved upwardly, as at a, and extends forwardly in a horizontal plane, as at a and directly over the shoe or base member, and the said portion a terminates in a long shank c non-eircular'in cross-section, the reason for which will presently ap pear. The front end of the runners curves 1 up, as at a and to a point much higher than the portion (1 and the end thereof is curved l abruptly downward, as at a", and terminates in a pendent vertically-disposed shank 6 having the same cross-sectional shape as the shank a and having a series of sockets 6 to receive the binding-screw 20.

B designates a T-shap'ed socket having a transverse slot in its shank b and having its cross member I) made tubular to receive the axle-spindle, the said tubular member I) and the shank I) having threaded apertures 1 and 2 to receive the clamp-screws 10 and 20 for holding the T-shaped socket member to its adjusted position on the shank c and the axle-spindle 1, as shown.

B is a second T-shaped socket-piece which is a duplicate of the socket member B and, as shown in the drawings, is fitted on the rear shank a of the runner to adj ustably receive the rear axle-spindle.

the runner, its shank like ends, and the socket members B and B the runners can be read.- ily fitted to receive the axle-spindles by a proper vertical and longitudinal adjustment of the socket members or T-shaped bearingboxes B and B, and since the said boxes are duplicates, as shown, they can be used on either end of the runner, and thus minimizing cost of producing the runner and the time of applying the parts to an operative position.

In Fig. 4 I have illustrated a slightly-modified form of my invention, in which the rear end is like that shown in the preferred construction, with the socket adj ustably mounted thereon. The front end, however, terminates with an integral transversely-disposed socket B to receive the front axle-spindle and has a set-screw for holding said socket clamped upon the said spindle.

Instead of making the socket B an integral part of the end a", as shown in Fig. l, the said socket B may have a socket portion 1) arranged to fit upon a pendent member 6 on the end a, provided with a transverse threaded aperture to receive the fastening-screw 20, as shown in Fig. 4.

I am aware that sled-runners have been heretofore provided in which the ends of the runners have T-shaped boxes to receive the axle-spindles. My invention differentiates from such type of runners heretofore provided, so far as I know, in the peculiar correlation of the ends of the runner and the manner in which the sockets are formed, so as to admit By reason of the peculiar construction of l of an extension adjustment of the spindleholllding boxes both longitudinally and vertica y.

In the preferred form of my invention it will be noticed the lower end of the front runnershank terminates in a line sufficiently below the rear shank and to provide for accurately suspending both T-shaped boxes for properly sustaining front or rear aXles that lie in the same horizontal plane When used for childrens carriages or gocarts, the shank 6 need not have the sockets 6, the latter being necessary only when the runners are to be used with buggies and other heavy vehicles.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A runner of the character described, having upwardly-curved front and rear ends, the front end having a downwardly-curved portion terminating in a vertically-pendent shank, rectangular in cross-section, the rear end terminating in an inwardly-extending horizontal shank, rectangular in cross-section and socket members for receiving the axle-spindles, said socket members having rectangular apertures to receive the vertical and horizontal shanks and set-screws for holding the same in their adjusted positions, substantially as shown and described.

2. A runner of the character described having its front end curved upwardly, backwardly and downwardly and terminating in a vertical shank having a plurality of adjusting-apertures and said runner having its rear end curved upwardly and terminating in an inwardly extending horizontal shank, T- shaped bearing-boxes slidable on either shank ends, said bearing-boxes having set-screws for clamping them in their different adjustments and having portions to receive the axle-spindles, substantially as shown and described.

3. A runner of the character described having its front end bent into a circular shape and terminating into a vertical downwardlypro ecting shankporti on rectangular in crosssection and having its rear end bent up into a semicircle and terminating in an inwardlyprojecting horizontal shank portion, rectangular in cross-section, and a pair of T-shaped socket members each consisting of a cylindrical bearing portion to receive an aXlespindle, a set-screw for cooperating with said bearing portion and each of said bearing members having squared apertures for receiving the shank portions of the runners, and a set-screw for cooperating with said squared apertures for holding the bearing members adjustably on the runners, substantially as shown and-described.

JAMES W. SORENSON. Witnesses:

BURT MITCHELL, WALDEMAR JENsoN. 

